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Twenty-Two Years of Hope: Seeing Hope of the States in Islington There have been a handful of bands I’ve seen numerous times over the years.

Wrote this after the gig last night, open.substack.com/pub/simonpea...

Great words Simon

#gigday

This flag patriotism thing has gone too far. The Italians have had a go at the steps on Peterborough station.

Yes deffo make plans, I might be on black also, so easy to spot

I'm going to Edinburgh too

First gig ticket for 2026 purchased.

I live in Beckenham, a leafy suburb of south east London, a place where David Bowie lived for several years.

Beckenham doesn’t have any decent kebab shops. I put this down to the fact that no one has yet had the vision to open one called “We Could Be Gyros”.

Great news, everyone. I’m playing GIGANTIC Bristol again. It was fantastic last time. Tickets go on sale at 7pm TONIGHT! No presale!
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A great night of DJs. TOWERBLOCK1 - is Jimmy Cauty from the KLF

Tickets

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Yes it got busier

Mawiza and Turbonegro in Malmö #gigday

Arrived in Malmö to discover a free music festival going on all around us.

Øresund Bron. The start of a short holiday to Copenhagen and Malmö.

#gigday Imagine Dragons - London

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One spare ticket for IDLES in Bristol Friday 1st August. £45.60 Inc fees (19% Less than face value)

Shares welcome, thank you.

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Ta found where my DMs were and replied

I don't do twitter any more, but you can have this as a retweet.

#gigday Oasis Cardiff

I'm currently listening to the audio book of this and it is an entertaining informative listen .

If you read via a kindle /kindle app this is well worth 99p if you have a passing interest in Oasis or the Manchester music scene of that era.

Avon & Somerset Police to investigate John Betjeman ‘Slough’ poem Avon and Somerset are reportedly investigating global comments on several performances at Glastonbury at the weekend that the Government and various lobby groups did not like. Since they clearly ha…

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Cheers - Best festival I've been to in years, did 40,000 steps in day and saw reasonable amounts from 11 bands out of 17.

YouTube video by Susie Davidson Massachusetts The The, Full Set, w/ Johnny Marr on 2 songs, Forever Now Fest, Natl. Bowl Milton Keynes UK, 22/6/25

Just found this! 🔥
The The • Full set from the Forever Now Festival
Johnny Marr 🎸 joins in for two songs! 🎶

#THETHE #JohnnyMarr #LiveMusic #MusicSky 🎶🎧
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John McKay’s Reactor: The Lexington, London – Live review Post-punk pioneer John McKay returns with more tales of the unexpected

John McKay’s Reactor: The Lexington, London – Live review
'After close on half a century in the shadows, goth’s lost guitar hero John McKay is back. We join the tomb army assembled to pay their respects to Banshee guitar genius.' louderthanwar.com/john-mckays-... via @louderthanwar

Did you pay to get in back then, or did you get in when the band opened the fire exits! Might have only been a one off occasion to be fair.

Which begs the question - what citizenship does Adam have?

YouTube video by Lee Harrison The Beat(en) Generation - The The with Johnny Marr - Festival Now, Milton Keynes 22/6/25

The The & Johnny Marr - The Beat(en) Generation (Forever Now Festival June 22nd, 2025)

Jesus and Mary Chain lost a lot of their set due to the delays and apologised that it was out of their control. They never apologised in 1985 when they ripped people off with 20 minute sets! I didn't see a duff band all day to be honest.. Lets hope we get another one in 2026 (probably not)

Kraftwerk were disappointing on the daylight, so I caught some Death Cult instead and then Kraftwerk were great after dark.
PiL did Open Up and Word Destruction, actually non - PiL songs. The Happy Mondays held it together OK for the bit I saw.
The second stage had sound issues that caused delays.

Forever Now Festival yesterday - a very enjoyable day out at MK Bowl, nice weather, a very friendly crowd & never a problem with drinks / toilets. Reality is that it hadn't sold well, so otherwise it might not have been so nice.

Johnny Marr doing Smiths songs & then joining The The was a highlight